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Mary Schmich and I discussed Barack Obama’s 180 on accepting public financing for his campaign, and Julianne Hough’s “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” pratfall with host John Williams today on WGN AM 720. Read more
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Another packed programme tonight and you can take a look at what will be featured here. I’m off to check out what the blogoshere is saying about the much talked about UFO sightings. Is it all for real and is a security probe needed? Hopefully I can also find some bloggers writing about what they [...]
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The British computer engineer Neil Entwistle has been convicted in the US of killing his wife and baby. Entwistle shot them in their Massachusetts home in 2006 before fleeing to the UK. He was later extradited back to the US. Michelle Clifford reports. Read more
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Rex Features Britain’s Got Talent winner George Sampson has signed an advertising deal with NatWest bank. The 14-year-old breakdancer will front a campaign to promote NatWest Adapt, an account available exclusively for 11 to 18-year-olds. The campaign will debut online and run for three months initially. Sampson’s face will also feature on several bank cards. [...]
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Mexico has agreed to extradite a reputed leader of a Tijuana-based drug cartel to the U.S. The government has dismissed a Mexican judge’s recommendation that Benjamin Arellano Felix not be extradited because he should not be tried twice on the same charges. Read more
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There’s a wealth of millionaires out there – but the global population of those rolling in dough grew at a smaller rate last year than in 2006, due to the drooping economy. Read more
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Cindy Sheehan’s endorsement by San Francisco’s Green Party today will give the anti-war activist’s longshot campaign for Congress a boost, but not because it adds much to her chances of beating House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in November. Read more
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In a dispatch that has been picked up by news outlets in Asia and Europe, Reuters has reported that, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a vast territory in northwestern China, “Chinese authorities…have demolished a [Muslim] mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of…August’s Beijing Olympics,” the international sports event that is scheduled [...]
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WASHINGTON — Colombia will be left to sit back and watch this fall as two of its neighbors — Peru and Panama — become the latest Latin American countries to enter into free trade agreements with the United States. Read more
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BERLIN, June 24 — Germany pledged Tuesday to contribute up to 1,000 more troops to the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, responding to months of pleas from the United States and other allies to bulk up its peacekeeping force. Read more
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MIANZHU, China — Inside Meng Futing’s refugee tent, the air was hot and fetid. Outside, summer rain had turned the little earthen lane to mud. It was so sticky between the rows of tents that each step Meng took made a sucking sound. Read more
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Last fiscal year, the Border Patrol apprehended 115,000 unaccompanied minors, up from 98,000 in 2001. Almost 7,800 children landed in the federally funded system of shelters last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, 2005 — 25 percent of them girls, 20 percent under 15. Read more
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Facing an unexpected backlash from angry travelers and lawmakers, the Bush administration said yesterday it would be flexible in enforcing new passport requirements beginning next January for Americans who return by land or sea from Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. Read more
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CAIRO Second of two articles Early this year, a religious radical calling himself Abu Hamza had a question for the deputy leader of al-Qaeda regarding the Egyptian secret police. “Are they committing unbelief?” he tapped on his keyboard. “And is it permissible to kill them?” This Story Al-Qaeda’s Growing Online Offensive Extremists in Tribal Areas [...]
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BAGHDAD, June 24 — A car bomb wounded 90 civilians in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, the U.S. military said in a statement. The military said the attack was carried out by the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq. Read more
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, June 24 — Influential leaders in South Africa and Senegal on Tuesday joined the global condemnation of Zimbabwe’s lethal political violence and called on President Robert Mugabe to cancel Friday’s election on grounds it would not reflect the free will of voters. Read more
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LONDON (Reuters) – Southern African leaders will hold an emergency meeting in Swaziland’s capital Mbabane on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in Zimbabwe, officials said. Read more
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SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Tuesday ran into opposition in environmentally conscious California to his policy switch in favor of U.S. offshore oil drilling. Read more
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has vowed to press ahead with Friday’s run-off presidential election despite growing international condemnation. Read more
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In other violence reported by police and hospital officials on Tuesday, gunmen killed the head of the local council who was linked to al-Sadr’s movement in Abu Dshir, a Shiite enclave in the mainly Sunni area of Dora in southern Baghdad. Read more